At JFK


Most Mormons make Margie mad.
John F. Kennedy International Airport, Queens, New York - November 2007

Waiting for the flight to Houston for Ro's wedding.

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The Boathouse

So get some J. Geils records.
Brooklyn, New York - May 2007

I love how old this photo looks even though I only took it a couple of weeks ago while walking through prospect park. I dig this Efke film. This is ISO100, and I feel like I had a hard time exposing it correctly. I wonder what's going to happen when I get to the roll of ISO25 I bought not long ago. If it looks old timey like this, I'll be thrilled.

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Kodak Brownie Starmite, Efke R100 127, Diafine, Canon Canoscan CS8600F

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Sentences


For a small fee I'll cook it.
Brooklyn, New York - April 2007


Another obnoxious PhD holder.
Try throwing him a curveball.
"Dead" isn't really accurate.
Hey Jackson Browne watch out.
Sure if you were a hot chick.
I dub thee Sir Elgin McQueer.
Col. Potter to the Lido Deck.
Our only choice is to sautee.
Some say I'm not dumb at all.
So you think you know hockey.
The grand king of drag bunts.
Steven your sarcasm is trite.
I was replaced by Rudy Sarzo.
I don't need your free Monet.
Enough hair spray for Poison.
She makes a sort of quacking.
Born in Cuba raised in Maine.
I don't know what valence is.
No can do without Daryl's OK.
Greetings from Downtown Kiev.
I collect empty plastic bags.
During Satan's pre-evil days.
He just isn't into you Linda.
I got a Macintosh bomb error.
Yanks combine on nine-hitter.
I used to be daft like Al is.
A farewell to Mr. Tom Poston.
Yet you think iPods are cool.
I shouldn't be this terrific.
This is Emeril's last hurrah.
My villain laugh: Bwuhahahah.
We prefer the term "ice box".
They call this thing a woman.
Just dusting off the old gun.
Daryl only talks about Daryl.
You can only be so Pakistani.
Found the elusive hoser gene.
The correct answer is: Belen.
Four thousand seven hundreds.
As Lou might say: "I am Lou".
There's just no pleasing you.
Ok Pete go put on some pants.
Ho go scare me up some toast.
Love in the time of Ed Asner.
I think she's just overtired.
Your old man's a real square.
I'm sorry I slept with Diane.
You and your free hamburgers.
But today's not her birthday.
Thems some big ears you gots.
It's time for Mork and Mindy.

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Nikon F, 50 mm f/1.4, expired Fuji Superia 200, Diafine

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Thriftee

The New Horizons Pluto probe.
Brooklyn, New York - April 2007

That's some intense grain there. That's what happens when you develop expired Fuji Superia 200 color film as black and white in Difine. Shot with a Nikon F and it's beat up 50 mm f/1.4 lens with a loose inner element.

I like this one. The grain makes it look old, maybe taken from a newspaper, even thuough I just shot it last week.

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Owl's Head Park

Hum the theme to Super Mario.
Brooklyn, New York - April 2007

I was wrong. Getting hit in the head with a rubber duck over and over isn't such a bad way to wake up.

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Shot with an Agfa Isolette on expired Ilford HP5+ at EI800, give or take, developed in Diafine, and scanned using a Canon Canoscan CS8600F

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Play Here

Offer that steak to your mom.
Brooklyn, New York - April 2007

Taken on 5th Avenue in Brooklyn. Nikon F, 35mm lens, Expired Fuji Superia 200.

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Tall Grass

Charlotte is in North Dakota.
Brooklyn, New York - October 20006

I biked from my apartment to the Gateway National Recreation area in Queens last fall. On the way back, I stopped for a break along the way, and noticed that the stretch of the Belt Parkway I was riding along was lined with a thick curtain of tall marsh grass, separating the highway and bike path from the hidden wetland behind. The air was briny and soft, in spite of the smell of exhaust, and the swishing and creeking of the grass in the wake of the passing cars reminded me of the sound of the bamboo blowing in the forests Tanja and I hiked in on Oahu a few years ago. For those few minutes, I felt like I was far away from Brooklyn.

Shot on Fuji Portra 400 with a Yashica Mat 124.

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Looking out to Sea

Tempted by the fruit of Anne.
Jacob Riis Park, Queens, New York - October 2006

Taken with a Yashica Mat 124 on Fuji Portra 400.

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Garage Door On 77th Street

Use inverted-lens techniques.
Brooklyn, New York - March 2007

For years, since I started to really get into photography, I've always wanted to shoot a classic Nikon SLR. Any would do, but I wanted to be an old, manual everything one, no tricks, just me, the camera, and a little Sunny 16. Just once, just one roll.

Last fall, a while before I quit my job I tried to buy a bunch of photo and darkroom gear from a woman I came across on Craig's List. It never worked out, and I forgot about her and the stuff. Then, last month, she emailed me out of the blue and told me I could have the stuff free if I came to her place and got it.

So, here we are. Not only did get to shoot a Nikon, but I now own a Nikkormat EL from the early '70s, and the camera this photo came from, the classic Nikon of classic Nikons, a Nikon F, probably from 1960-something. It's weighs about 40 pounds, looks like it went head-on with a train, the lenses are a bit iffy, and it has no light meter. I love the way the earth moves when you push that cold metal button.

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